Rebecca's Version: We met at our friend's birthday party. I knew about Brendan (Crook as his friends call him) because he had grown up with and was once roommates with my friend Rob. Funny story, one time I was hanging out at the house he and Rob lived in before a concert but Brendan was out for the night, so we never crossed paths. I also knew that Brendan was a nurse at Hartford Hospital like me. Anyway, so when we finally met at that birthday party, I remember thinking it was nice to finally put a face to the person I had heard so much about in passing. I also remember thinking he had an amazing smile and the bluest of blue eyes.

We kept running into each over the next couple weeks and ended up playing in the same rec soccer league. After one of the games, he asked me out for drinks or maybe it was dinner, but I misunderstood him and thought he was saying we as a soccer team should all go out. Luckily, he realized I had misunderstood him, and he ending up sending me a DM that night clarifying that he was trying to ask me out. And the rest, as they say, is history...

Brendan's Version: It all started a long, long time ago when we attended a mutual friend's birthday party. I remember Rebecca immediately catching my eye, and we connected later that night talking about how we are both nurses. She was the life of the party, and I left that night with a huge crush. I even went through the trouble of joining her rec soccer team just so we could continue getting to know one another. Having no experience with soccer, my first game I stepped on the ball and did a face plant. Despite this, she still talked to me.

When I finally mustered up the courage to ask Rebecca on a date, she didn't even realize that I was asking her out and responded with "Yeah, sounds like fun!" I decided to ask a second time and thankfully she agreed. Our first date was at the movies watching Guardians of the Galaxy 2, and I showed up 20 minutes late because I got lost AND my phone died. Thankfully, when I arrived, Rebecca had already purchased two tickets and was waiting outside the theater.

R&B

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